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A U.N.-backed court will soon pronounce verdicts in a 15-year-old bombing in Beirut that roiled the Middle East. But critics say the court’s protracted deliberations and huge expense have undermined its original purpose.
Nine months after stepping down from Congress, she is trying to move forward.
Warnings had piled up for years that nursing homes were vulnerable. The pandemic sent them to the back of the line for equipment and care.
A federal supplement to jobless pay was a lifeline for millions and for the economy. Its cutoff, even if temporary, may have lasting consequences.
As the two parties clash over how to conduct an election in a pandemic, President Trump’s litigiousness and unfounded claims of fraud have increased the likelihood of epic postelection court fights.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 2020, covering August 8, 2020.
Taylor Swift
Logic
Juice WRLD
Pop Smoke
Original Broadway Cast
2020Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian football player and manager (born 1929)[†]
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the most successful Colombian coach of all time.
2020Alfredo Lim, former Philippine senator and Mayor of Manila (born 1929)[†]
Alfredo "Fred" Siojo Lim was a Filipino politician, police officer and lawyer who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 2004 to 2007, He also served as the 23rd and 25th Mayor of Manila twice: first from 1992 to 1998, and again from 2007 to 2013.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]